Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?

[Domagoj Stolfa]

Hi:

On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 10:16:54PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Maxime,
> 
> Maxime Devos 写道：
> > <snip>
> 
> That's a very good idea if possible.

Why can substitutes not be offered for ZFS as a standalone module? I'm not a
lawyer nor do I understand much lawyerese, but AIUI, the problem stems from
the FSF lawyers thinking it wouldn't stand up in court to distribute CDDL
software linked against GPL'd software as one big binary. Could someone please
explain why it would not be acceptable to distribute substitutes of ZFS as a
*standalone kernel module*, rather than as a part of linux-libre?

Thanks!

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Domagoj

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